In today's fast-paced digital landscape, AI isn't just a tool for generating content - it can also help you fine-tune your prompts themselves for better results.  By using AI to analyze and refine your queries, you will recieve clearer, more creative and targeted responses.  If you're counting tokens, it will also save on usage costs.

So try asking your AI system of choice:

"Please optimise the following prompt and add placeholders for any additional information I might need to provide:  

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Please write me a process to deploy nginx as a docker image to act as a reverse proxy for a web server

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Different AI systems will definitely yield varying results, so try posting this on a few.  This helps in so many ways to organise your thoughts and information gathering, its a real time saver, especially when you run the resultant prompt!  

We've almost stopped using search engines in favour of well written prompts.  Integrating AI into your prompt-writing process is a smart way to save even more time fault finding and prompt refining...

Happy optimizing!

ps: Please pardon my manners when writing prompts, you really don't need to do that, but do read our other blog posts about prompt manners!

Since I first started using ChatGPT, my prompts have always been courteous "Please can you..." and "Thank you" at the end of the conversation.  A friend commented the other day that this makes no difference whatsoever to the LLM and is really just wearing out my keyboard prematurely.

I take a different view... Just like humans don't take kindly to having orders barked at them, I think AI will start reacting differently to less polite prompts.  I expect that as LLMs become increasingly sophisticated they will be able to pick up a positive or negative stance and their responses will start to vary accordingly. 

Another aspect may be that it is good practise to be polite, and getting in the habit of just giving orders makes us into less tolerable people in daily life, so it's good to keep up those manners!  

Anyway, Thank you for reading!